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Other Stuff in Whitstable, Kent*

Whitstable, Kent Stuff You Don't Get Anywhere Else

The Stuff We Can't Fit In Somewhere Else

• When you are at home in whitstable, the chinese ands other take-aways compete to have your custom. Meals tend to be garrullous! and big. it's worth spending £1.20 on chips being brought to you by the local takeaway (if you don't like chips you can order rice!)
• come down and have fun. but stop beihg pillocks
• What a great site if you want to hear the truth about a place and its people this is the site to click onto.I see we have a protector [see the knowhere board `Pontificating Slanderers`]of the `not so nice people of the area` and he or she says the people who make these remarks are nasty and cowardly and yet he or she [but we all know who] hides behind the nickname of `Larry the Fish`[a bit slimey dont you think]pehaps he or she`s one of them!!Whitstable is full of a great cross section of people which is made up of 25% locals and 70% settlers from elswhere and 5% visitors and the locals are not happy with the situation.Especially as the majority of the settlers are the ones who are `doing OK` and are resposible for putting Whitstable on the map and creating more employement in the area.Just take a look at the commercialism around the Thanet Way in Whitstable made up of mainly NON LOCALS?????[Oh and of course the pikey families which are locals]
• New arrivals Harry Hill the comedian has bought a place in Admiralty Walk.Likewise Janet Street-Porter has a place in Seasalter Beach.The place is becoming overun with celeb's.Don't know what the Oyster's think.I hear there all leaving for Essex. You can Buy Peter Cushings Derelict house for 350K
• Cabinet Makers - OCM in Tankerton Rd, will design and make really unusual furniture or match your existing pieces. Real Whitstable craftwork. www.ostervigcabinetmakers.co.uk(yell.com)
• Beaches, Parks, for instance Tankerton is nice for swimming and sunbathing but used to be better.
• If anyone wants to Know anything about the Tankerton Estate Whitstable Click on http:// www.countyestateagents.co.uk and make their enquiry or phone 01227 274471 anytime..
• on your info about famous people living in the town it is phil mitchell from eastenders not grant bye
• The Tankerton Estate with its 35 miles of 10ft ways and restricted covenants on all all properties in the area is the reason Tankerton is the nicest place to live in the Whistable area and it has not been over commercialised for over a 100 yrs.It is managed by County Estate Agents who hold all the imformation & history on Tankerton including ol drawing and maps and deeds of the area .Speak to Mr Moxley there who is always very obliging and helpfull....TERRY moxley
• Somewhere to stay. Belmont House B&B. Wonderful, if a little falling down, historic building in central Whitstable. The best breakfast in town. Reasonable rates. Phone 01227 - 272206 or e-mail stephaniebrunton@hotmail.com
• Whitstable has, although small got a swimming pool!
• Jones Fish Shop do very good cod and chips.
• Lens Barbers is a great place to let your hair down Jovial chat, great gossip and a copy of noticeboard printed and available for reading by customers in the hope of bringing lost friends back together All this and a great service makes for the No 1 Barber in the Bubble 28 years loyal service to the Town Well done Len !
• Ex- WWII Sea Forts as featured in Museum. Now totally pointless.
• Squeeze Guts Alley, linking Middle wall to Island wall. Not for the overweight.
• The first Railway to the Whitstable opened in May 1830 ie BEFORE the Liverpool & Manchester using a Stephenson built locomotive which preceeded "Rocket" - so there!!
• In Victorian times Whitstable was THE International Centre for Diving - not a lot of people know that!
• World famous for its Oysters which would circumnavigate the Isle of Sheppy during their life cycle. Pollution from the River Medway stopped that. Now farmed and grow in plastic mesh sacks and thus kept from their travels - probably healthier for it though!

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